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APC’s flag-bearer, President Buhari has since congratulated Lyon on his victory.
These two states are conducting a by-election to choose new governors.
Wike won with a landslide in the rerun after he polled 888,264 votes against Awara who scored 137,859 votes.
Among the five states in the Southeast region, PDP won in four while APGA took only one state.
Two states in the region were declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
APC is currently in power across five states in the region while PDP is ruling in only one.
INEC has insisted that the election will be rerun in the affected states.
He was declared winner of the gubernatorial poll after scoring a total of 1,045,427 votes.
The APC has rejected the outcome of the election.
He defeated the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Dr Uche Ogah who polled 99,574 votes.
Following behind him was Jimi Agbaje of PDP who garnered 206,141 votes.
A power tussle between the various interests in the state created a tension that spilled into violence.
He’s in a fierce contest with the PDP candidate, Abba Kabir-Yusuf.
It will be interesting to watch how events unfold in various states across the country.
The city has fallen short of every indices of development and now ranks among the three worst cities in the world.
His detention was carried out on Monday, just a day to the official filing of the presidential suit against APC.
The ruling was handed out in just five days to the governorship election in the state.
The upper chamber will receive not less than 15 former governors as senators.
